Haystack

Haystack is a free Discord app for simulated market trading. Practice trades, track a portfolio, and follow performance over time without using real money.

Discord App Paper Trading Portfolio Tracking Market Simulation Free to Use

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Overview

Trading practice app

What it does — simulated portfolio tracking

Haystack gives Discord communities a simple way to practice market ideas without turning the server into a real trading platform.

Users can create simulated positions, track them over time, and build a lightweight portfolio history.

Haystack is for education and simulation only. It does not place real trades, connect to brokerage accounts, or provide financial advice.

Practice Trades Portfolio History Discord App

Current Features

Track

Simulated trades

Users can create practice trades from Discord and follow how those positions perform over time.

Paper Trading Trade Entries

Review

Portfolio tracking

Haystack keeps a running portfolio history so users can review practice positions and learn from past decisions.

Portfolio Position History

Learn

Market practice

The app is designed for learning, testing ideas, and building comfort with market movement without financial risk.

Market Simulation Learning Tool

Community

Discord-native flow

Everything happens inside Discord, making the app easy to access from a server where people already talk and share ideas.

Discord Bot Commands

NEW FEATURE

Property Review is now live

Haystack now includes an educational Property Review toolset alongside the existing paper trading features.

/mortgagecalc — Estimate monthly property costs
/superscore — Calculate a manual property Interest Rating
/propertywatch — Save property watch criteria
/propertyalerts — Review saved property watches
/propertyremove — Remove a saved property watch

This feature is manual-input only for now. Haystack does not scrape Redfin, Zillow, Realtor.com, Airbnb, VRBO, or other listing sites.

Educational estimate only. Not financial, legal, tax, lending, or real estate advice.

Current Stack

App foundation

Discord app — lightweight and practical

Haystack is built as a lightweight Discord.js app connected to market data for simulated trading workflows. It runs alongside Barndoor as part of my self-hosted app and automation stack.

Node.js Discord.js Yahoo Finance API Self-hosted

What's Next?

Roadmap

Where this project is going — better trading practice inside Discord

The next phase of Haystack is focused on making simulated trading easier to understand, easier to use, and more useful for Discord communities.

Improve the trade flow so users can create, review, and close simulated positions more clearly.
Build better portfolio history so users can look back at practice trades, outcomes, and performance over time.
Add cleaner onboarding, help text, and examples so new users understand how to start using Haystack quickly.
Keep the app focused on education, simulation, and community learning — not financial advice or real-money trading.

Trade Flow Portfolio History Discord UX Learning Tool